Title | Artist | Album | Composer | Label
Rabbit Is Up to Tricks | Joy Harjo | Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace | Joy Harjo | Smithsonian Folkways
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Joy Harjo | Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace | Charles Mingus | Smithsonian Folkways
Lonely Woman | Elina Duni & Rob Luft | Reaching for the Moon | Ornette Coleman | ECM
Theme from Rosemary’s Baby | Duke Pearson | Mosaic Select: Duke Pearson | Krzysztof Komeda | Mosaic Select
Sleep Safe and Warm | Marcin Wasilewski Trio w/ Joakim Milder | Spark of Life | Krzysztof Komeda | ECM
Yumeji’s Theme; Sleep Safe and Warm | Elina Duni & Rob Luft | Reaching for the Moon | Shigeru Umebayashi; Krzysztof Komeda | ECM
Ford the River | Fergus McCreadie | The Shieling: Companion Pieces | Fergus McCreadie | Edition
Magnetique | Björn Meyer | Convergence | Björn Meyer | ECM
Uncle Paul | Joe Webb | Neath Beat | Joe Webb | Edition
Allan | Lars Danielsson Liberetto | Echomyr | Lars Danielsson | ACT
The Peacocks | Kemuel Roig | Both Sides Now | Jimmy Rowles | Life in Music
My Three Notes | Omar Sosa & Quarteto Americanos | We Are Not the Headliner | Omar Sosa | Otá
Joy Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation, is a leading Native American poet, and served as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States (2019–2022). Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace, co-produced with bassist Esperanza Spalding, is Harjo’s eighth recording, whereon she sings and plays alto and soprano saxophone, Native flute, ukulele, electric guitar and bass, synthesizer, drums, percussion, bullroarer, and effects. Harjo’s previous album, I Pray for My Enemies, likewise draws from her poetry. Harjo won the National Portrait Gallery’s 2025 Portrait of a Nation Award; her portrait will be added to the gallery collection, and will be on view there later in 2026.
Born in Tirana, Elina Duni left Albania at age 10 and studied composition, voice, and pedagogy in Switzerland. Based in Zurich, she is an ECM recording artist. She collaborates with English guitarist Rob Luft, whose latest solo release, Dahab Days (Edition Records, 2023), was inspired by his time in Egypt’s Dahab region; Welsh pianist and Hammond B–3 organist Joe Webb (see below) plays keyboards on Dahab Days.
Atlanta pianist Duke Pearson (1932–1980) recorded extensively as a bandleader on the Blue Note label, including with Donald Byrd, and with the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Sextet (aka The Jazztet). Pearson also worked as an A&R man with Blue Note, and went on to teach at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.
Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski is an ECM recording artist who also has performed with the Tomasz Stańko Quartet, Manu Katché, Joakim Milder, and Jacob Young.
Scottish pianist Fergus McCreadie began his musical odyssey playing the bagpipes, but took up piano at age 12 and went on to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. His unique style combines contemporary jazz with elements of Scottish folk music. He is an Edition Records recording artist.
Swedish bassist and composer Björn Meyer studied piano as a youth before taking up guitar in Stockholm punk bands, then moved on to electric and acoustic bass. He resides in Zurich and has recorded with Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem and Nik Bartsch’s Ronin.
Born and raised in Wales, pianist and Hammond B-3 organist Joe Webb lives in London. He has appeared at Ronnie Scott’s, the London Jazz Festival, Jazzwoche Burghausen, and Blue Note China among other venues. Webb also has worked with London-based Kansas Smitty’s and with the Wynton Marsalis Quartet, and he records for Edition Records.
Swedish double bassist, electric bassist, and cellist Lars Danielsson studied at the Gothenburg Conservatory. He has collaborated with Dave Liebman, Bobo Stenson, Joey Calderazzo, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jon Christensen, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart, Charles Lloyd, Tigran Hamasyan, and John Scofield among numerous others.
Cuban pianist Kemuel Roig studied classical piano and percussion at Cuba’s Escuela Nacional de Música in Cubanacán, Havana, and moved to Miami in 2002. He has performed with Arturo Sandoval, Al Di Meola, Chris Potter, Randy Brecker, and Giovanni Hidalgo among others.
Camagüey native Omar Sosa studied percussion, marimba, and piano at the Escuela Nacional de Música, Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. He recently completed an artist residency at SFJazz, and has released over 30 albums on the Otá label. His many artistic collaborations stretch across five continents. Sosa’s latest solo piano title is Sendas, and his upcoming release with Quarteto Americanos, We Are Not the Headliner, is scheduled for late May 2026.
